Week 261! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 8/4-8/10.

Alright, and future script updates, also as per usual. This one's for page 454.

This page more or less serves as just a bit of further brief brevity from the serious, dark tone of the previous scene, as well as to bridge the gap from that to the next actual scene and the more major point of this story arc.

I will say that it's interesting thinking about the evolution of technology and culture in the real world and how much it's changed and affected stuff in the comic. This page's punchline involves free-to-play gacha mobile games that have been all the rage for a while now, but 10 years ago, there's no way this would've ever been a joke, as these games simply didn't exist for the most part as they do now. Heck, mobile phones didn't exist as they do now for the most part. Most things were crappy Java-based games on your regular clam shell or sliding phone. I didn't have a smartphone until 2016, so my inclusion of smartphones in the comic in the past far before that was more a matter of necessity to at least match technology as it was advancing in real life, even if my low understanding made the phones back then more... rudimentary and basic. 

There's other examples as well like lesser handheld video game consoles sort of passing by at this point despite Bruce getting one for his birthday very early on, or the fact the MMORPG Bruce (and others) have played occasionally was more based on FF11 (among others) while FF14 is the current big thing now. On the other hand, there's also stuff like how I did an arc about VRC, a virtual reality chat program, 4 years before VR Chat became a thing, and there's things like the silly floating orb robot and the lunar mining that have yet to pass. It's just kind of fun to think about I guess. Some stuff can date the comic, but I don't think they date it as bad as when people blatantly reference current events, at least.